Luke Maslen
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Hi Baz,
Thanks for letting us know and that’s good news as the DeckLink 6.1 for Mac OS X drivers don’t have any specific support for Premiere Pro for Mac OS X but they do seem to work well. Naturally we shall include specific driver support for Premiere Pro on Mac OS X once it has been released.
Regards,
Luke Maslen
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Hi,
We have specifically tested the Dell 24″ and 27″ monitors with HDLink and made sure they work fine. HDLink adapts the PAL video to match the 60 Hz frequency of the Dell displays.
Regards,
Luke Maslen
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Hi,
Yes, this option should be enabled so you can monitor your video with an external broadcast monitor. The following is a quote from the Final Cut Pro manual.
Check this box to show video on both your computer
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Hi,
The DeckLink HD Extreme (US$995) is all you need to work with the PDW-F350 XDCAM HD camera or PDW-F70 XDCAM HD deck. If you also want HDMI monitoring, then the Multibridge Pro provides that in additiion to the features of the DeckLink HD Extreme and of course the Multibridge Pro can also act as a standalone convertor when not connected to a PCI Express slot of a computer.
The camera and deck you have specified do not use the 4:4:4 color space and therefore you would simply capture using either Apple’s Uncompressed 4:2:2 QuickTime codecs on Mac OS X or the Blackmagic Uncompressed 4:2:2 AVI codecs on Windows.
4:2:2 HD uses a lower data rate than 4:4:4 HD and so the demands on your computer and disk array will be less. You can check out storage and data rates for both 4:2:2 and 4:4:4 HD in our support notes.
Regards,
Luke Maslen
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Hi Peter,
As a quick sanity check, would you please test uninstalling the v6.1 drivers and revert to the last ones you were successfully using? If that fixes the problem, then we’ll need to take a look at what’s changed. If that doesn’t fix the problem, then the driver update was a coincidence and the problem lies elsewhere.
Regards,
Luke Maslen
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Hi Richard,
We’ve previously encountered problems with Matrox cards including black video output so that is why we recommend nVIDIA and ATI. Having said that, Matrox cards in theory should work fine so before you buy another graphics card, please ensure that your system specifications match those listed on the Intensity Minimum System Requirements for Windows. If you already have a system that matches these requirements, then it is likely that using a different graphics card will help.
Regards,
Luke Maslen
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Hi Justin,
Yes, we will support the ProRes codec in our next driver release which will occur very shortly after Final Cut Studio 2 starts shipping in May.
Regards,
Luke Maslen
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Hi Peter,
Absolutely. I’ll make a seperate post with all the new goodies. Thanks for asking.
Regards,
Luke Maslen
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Hi Bob,
We’ve been working on a driver release to support the ProRes codec and it will be released hot on the heels of Apple’s Final Cut Studio 2 release in May.
The Apple ProRes 4:2:2 codec is a wonderful 10-bit compressed codec from Apple. We think it looks great and have been testing it with our products for some time now. If you drop by Apple’s stand at NAB, you can see the Blackmagic ProRes easy setups on the demo pods.
The codec is installed by Apple’s new Final Cut Studio 2 so you’ll need to upgrade to their new software and you’ll also need our new drivers to support the new software suite. Final Cut Studio 2 and our new drivers are due out in May.
Regards,
Luke Maslen
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Hi Justin,
The Intensity Pro does indeed replace the DeckLink HD Studio. We received a lot of feedback asking for RCA connections and unbalanced audio to support the most common outputs from analog devices, and especially for earlier HDV camera models which lacked HDMI output.
The engineers realized they could build upon the Intensity architecture and add analog connectivity for a much lower price that we could by using a DeckLink HD architecture. So that’s what we’ve done and it also seemed that RS-422 wasn’t needed by most people with analog RCA connections so we’ve managed to squeeze down the cost of the card to $349 and include both HDMI and analog connections.
Regards,
Luke Maslen
Blackmagic Design